The Open Farm Day will be held all over Estonia for the seventh time on Sunday, 25 July 2021! Järva County Vocational Training Centre takes part of the event. All visitors can get acquainted with the school, the study farm, specialties and studying opportunities at school. In the following photos you can see the moods […]

  International Youth Ploughing Contest 16 -19 September 2021 in Olustvere (EE)! Registration is open! Deadline is 15 August 2021. Only one competitor per country. Find out the program HERE. Contact marika.shadeiko@olustvere.edu.ee   See you in Estonia! 🙂

When birds start to sing in the spring, chainsaws and forest machines will be sent to Luua Forestry School (EE) for spring holidays. Students, teachers, seasonal workers and some school volunteers are taking steps on forest sites to build a new generation of forests. This year, we will plant a total of 155 500 new […]

Cause the pandemic situation the digitalisation is an everyday phenomenon in today’s vocational education. We say in Estonia quite often – Distance learning has come to stay. However, there is no way back. We all have to learn, adapt and move on. Räpina School of Horticulture is a partner in an Erasmus+ project “Digitalis”. The […]

Räpina School of Horticulture (EE) organizes a recycling market twice a year (in autumn and spring). It is designed to encourage people to notice how many unused things we have at home. Used things are practically waste for those owners. However, these “wastes” may be necessary for another. Through the recycling market, we can find […]

Räpina School of Horticulture (EE) is a project partner of Bulduri Horticulture School (LV) in a INTERREG Central Baltic project „Become more competitive beyond Your geographical and time constraints! Aligned distance learning modules in Landscape gardening matching industry needs and providing effective digital learning tools”.  The main aim of the project is to promote landscape gardening industry […]

The horticulture department of Räpina School of Horticulture (EE) is preparing for a plant project starting on Valentine’s Day. This is why we initiated the project study day for students that took place on Monday (25th of January 2021). During the session, Gardening students prepared quizzes, developed a concept for instructional videos during the brainstorming […]

On 2nd of October 2020, Olustvere School of Service and Rural Economics (EE) organized a conference “Farmer as a Top Manager”. This is an event the school has already organized 15 times. The target group is the top managers of agricultural holdings. The topic of the conference was the situation in agriculture and the economy, it’s connection […]

It’s harvest time! It’s harvest time in Estonia! Who said, that grapes can’t grow in Estonia? Yes, they do! Therefore, viticulture is a part of the gardener (EQF 4) curriculum in Estonia. In recent days, students of Räpina School of Horticulture have been busy by picking grapes. Cause sunny summer the yield was good and grapes […]

From this academic year, in Luua Forestry School, in addition to operating large forest machines, it is also possible to try your hand at smaller machines, which are especially suitable for maintenance felling. Smaller machines are lighter, more economical and have less impact on the ground. However, young men and women learning to drive a […]

With garlic against COVID-19 Garlic is known as a healing plant from ancient times. But at the beginning we have to plant the garlic in the soil. Now – last week in September to beginning October – is suitable for planting winter garlic (hard-neck garlic) in Estonia. Our young gardeners prepared the soil and garlic […]

There is no regular international ploughing competition for students this autumn, as the situation caused by COVID-19 does not allow it. However, Estonian students had the opportunity to participate in the Estonian ploughing championship in Kuremaa on 18-19 September, where a 6 young people competed. The students of Olustvere School of Service and Rural Economics […]